Lethal Weapon 2

1989

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

82
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 82% · 44 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 188019 188K

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Plot summary

In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!


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Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs
Joe Pesci as Leo Getz
Dean Norris as Tim Cavanaugh
Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by secondtake 7 / 10

Don't forget, the "lethal weapon" is Mel Gibson and his gun

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

The first half hour of this movie is such an empty mixture of very fast chase scenes and some dull talking between supposed bad guys you might not get to the final hour which is fun and funny and as good (in a way) as the first Lethal Weapon from two years earlier. Same cast, same crew, same assets.

The problem at first is partly that we don't know who the bad guys are. We have no reason to fear or hate them. We just know that Mel and Danny have to be in on some new awful crime situation. That requires faith, so okay, we keep watching. The opening chase is highly kinetic and violent and spectacular, if you like that kind of thing. It is also a heads up for a couple scenes later that are also really spectacular —a ridiculous machine gun festival from a helicopter (if they have helicopters that have rocket grenades and boom, that's that), and a really ridiculous yanking down of a spectacular building with a GMC pickup truck (an amazing highlight of the movie).

Yeah, it's a wonderful mixed bag. By the end I was loving it the way you love things like this—not as film studies, but as a lowbrow good time. There are some classic scenes, also ridiculous—like the great toilet one—and some filler, of course, but it clicks along and is a worthy sequel. If you liked the first, you'll like the second.

However, it's worth saying the first one has an elegance at times that makes it not just more artful (who cares?) but more compelling. Just the way the first scene is handled (in the first movie) makes you want to know what's happening, and you worry about the next few scenes because of the first one. Here, it's more a continuation of affection—which means you might have to see the first one before this, in case you haven't!

Reviewed by BA_Harrison 8 / 10

On a par with the first.

With the possible exception of Martin Rigg's mullet, which actually looks like it's been given a bit of a trim, everything about Lethal Weapon 2 is bigger than the first movie: the explosions are more explosive, the shoot-outs more shooty, the car crashes more crashy, the widdly guitar more widdly, and the warbling sax more warbly. As 80s action flicks go, this is definitely one of the best for spectacular vehicular chaos, ballistic mayhem, random acts of death and destruction, and tuneless music.

Jeffrey Boam's script delivers on all counts, matching Shane Black's original in terms of wit, pathos, and excitement, and although it does introduce what would become one of the most irritating characters in cinematic history—fast talking money launderer Leo Getz (Joe Pesci)—at least Boam has the good sense to inflict a lot of pain and suffering on the guy in the process, Leo getting more than a few bruises as the story progresses.

Seasoned Hollywood director Richard Donner handles proceedings well, balancing the light-hearted moments and the gritty action just right (a trick he seems to have forgotten come part 3), and with the benefit of a bigger budget than before, he gets to pull off some truly impressive action scenes, including the amazing destruction of an entire house on stilts.

Part 2 also benefits immensely from a pair of memorable villains—South African diplomat Arjen Rudd, played by Joss Ackland, and his truly wicked henchman/assassin Pieter (Derrick O'Connor), and the welcome presence of the wooden but still very lovely Patsy Kensit, who very kindly strips off for a sex scene (the price we must pay for that pleasure is yet another Mel Gibson ass shot, but at least it's only a side view— not a full on crack shot like in the first film!).

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 9 / 10

The archetypal buddy action comedy

There's nothing not to like about LETHAL WEAPON 2, a follow up to the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover-starring smash hit that improves on the first film in every respect. It pretty much follows/sets up the template that we've seen played out over and over again, more recently in the likes of the RUSH HOUR trilogy. Gibson is the crazy one, Glover is straight-laced, and together they have to team up to bring down a gang of criminal nasties.

Watching this film for the first time in many years, I was surprised by how fresh and inventive it felt. The comedy comes thick and fast with Glover's hapless ageing cop acting as the brunt of many of the jokes. As much as I like Glover here, the film really belongs to Gibson, whose crazed persona adds endless vitality to the movie. It never feels like he's acting, more like inhabiting the role. Other newcomers include an on-form Joe Pesci as the lovable Leo Getz, and the quite awful Patsy Kensit, who seems to think she's in a romantic comedy.

The ham acting of the performers playing the South African villains (headlined by Joss "Diplomatic immunity!" Ackland) is a cheesy delight and the film follows the template of including one great over-the-top set-piece after another (the toilet bomb is a highlight, I think). Things culminate in a finale that's dramatically satisfying to the nth degree, although of course with a film series this successful it wasn't long before a third movie came along.

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